The Premiere of The Company You Keep

The paparazzi mob outside of MoMA last night surprised a few guests—Mickey Sumner and Kim Ovitz were caught with Starbucks cups still in hand—while others took advantage of the opportunity, like young Sami Gayle hands posed on both hips soaking up the flashbulbs. At Monday’s premiere of Robert Redford’s latest film, The Company You Keep, it should have been no surprise, though, that a phalanx of photographers stood ready in waiting as the director and star of the film was joined by fellow cast members Brit Marling, Shia LaBeouf, and Stanley Tucci.

“I just want to say one thing that I’m extremely proud of and that is that I was blessed by having a wonderful cast,” explained Redford as he introduced the film. “And some of them are here tonight.” He went on to call out “old friend” Tucci and “new spirit” Marling. Redford either forgot to include LaBeouf, one the ensemble film’s leads, or didn’t know he was in attendance, and after leaving the microphone, apologized, yelling into the crowd, “And Shia LaBeouf is here as well!”

The audience giggled before settling into their seats for the thriller about a Weather Underground activist on a quest to clear his name. Lake Bell and Scott Campbell cuddled in a center row while Olivier Theyskens joined Rebecca Dayan near the front of the theater. Bob Simon and his wife, Francoise, shuffled into the middle seats past Zosia Mamet, who positioned her cerulean-panted legs into a grasshopper pose so that Simon could pass by. “I wish I could bend my legs up on the chair like that!” the 60 Minutes correspondent joked. Mamet blushed and smiled.

After the screening, the group moved to Harlow on East Fifty-sixth Street where Redford held court at a corner banquette protected by a trio of private security and framed by the underground space’s 1930s-era stained-glass windows. Starstruck guests hovered nearby pretending to sip their Avión Paloma cocktails. Unlike Redford’s character, there was no confusion about his identity.